{"id":9197,"date":"2016-08-09T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=9197"},"modified":"2016-09-09T07:04:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T06:04:57","slug":"brothers-acquitted-in-sex-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/brothers-acquitted-in-sex-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Brothers acquitted in sex case"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Wolverhampton Crown Court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Two brothers accused of sexual abuse against a small girl were acquitted at Wolverhampton Crown Court after not-guilty verdicts were entered this afternoon.<\/p>\n

One count of sexual abuse was scrubbed on the orders of the judge, and the jury delivered not guilty verdicts on a further seven. \u00a0Three others were withdrawn by the prosecution.<\/p>\n

The acquittals mark over a year of anguish for the family. \u00a0The girl, now eight, had been staying with them while her father, estranged from her mother, was working night-shifts.<\/p>\n

She made her accusations in June 2015 after her father found an obscene video she made of herself.<\/p>\n

The court heard she had been watching pornography next door with a twelve-year-old girl, who had touched her sexually. \u00a0But it was the boys she was staying with she accused.<\/p>\n

The family’s younger children were taken into care as a result of the accusations, so the action now shifts back to the family court.<\/p>\n

Next month the local authority will continue its quest to have the younger children adopted. It is true their case has been damaged by the acquittal of the older brothers.<\/p>\n

But the family court operates to lower standards of evidence than the crown court. Instead of ‘beyond reasonable doubt’, itself a long way short of justice as God demands it, the civil court standard of ‘balance of probabilities’ applies, despite the fact that the sanctions available to the family court – stripping parents of their children, depriving children of a family – are draconian.<\/p>\n

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Previous reports of the trial (contains challenging material):<\/p>\n

Mother says: I hear everything!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sex case raises questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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